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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1919)
PAGE 2 THB UK NO BCTJiKTlN, DAILY EDITION, IlfcfND, OKKflON, H.TVIU).VVf JUNK 81, 1010 Odell at a Glance (By John T. Farls, writer for I.ipplncott'a Magazine.) "When does the fishing get good In Odell lake?" asked a man thu other day who hnd taken the limit from lu limpid waters, and Inside of two hours. He was quite different from the family of campers from the northern part of Oregon, who, on Monday Inst, rejoiced In their catch of more than fifty pounds within a few hours dollies of a, size to mnko the eyes bulge and speckled beauties to make the mouth water. But finning Is not tho only attrac tion at Odell hike. Tako a good look at the lake from the hill on which Brock's comfortable log cabin re sort for the tourist is built. Take a motor boat and cruise along twenty miles of varied shoreline. Look up at the snow-clad peaks to the right and to the loft Crater butte and Diamond peak and Maiden peak. Look down at their reflection In the clear water where the trout can be seen many feet below the surface. Enter a bay with its sloping beach, or take the shore at a point where the water drops quickly away to the depths. Ramble through the pri meval forest that clothes the shores, the ridges and the mountains as far as the eye can reach. Scramble along the banks of Trapper creek or of Maiden creek, from the south, as far back as you choose to go. Climb the rock slide at Diamond point and look down at the blue lake, 300 feet below, and over to Diamond peak' with its glacier burdened slopes. Do this, and other things like this for a day if you have only a day, for a week if you can spend so long on one of the public camp grounds so thoughtfully provided by those in charge of the Deschutes national for est. Yes, do this, and see if you do not forget the grouch. Ton will come back to Bend a better man, a better woman easier to live with and a lot more comfortable to yourself. And Just to think thut Odell lake Is but 74 miles from Bond, first by the highway to Crescent, then over one of the attractive roads through the pines a portion of the thousand mile system of forest roads that make our Deschutes National For est unique. Sugar From the Garden. Gardeners who cannot raise sugar cane may be Interested In the follow ing description, which appears lu Chambers' Journal, of the process of extracting sugar from beets. The uinu teur must exercise great care In har vesting the roots that the tender skin be not broken. The first operation la to remove nil dirt by washing, after which the beets are boiled In water until the skin peels off easily. They are next cut Into thin slices, placed In a pan, Just covered with water, brought to a boil once more and then left to simmer for ten hours. The re sulting pulp is put Into a muslin ling and squeezed until all the Juice Is ex tracted. The Juice Is boiled down to a very thick sirup that makes u good substitute for commercial sugar. As the sirup will not keep for more than a few weeks. It Is advlsulile to make only a muuII supply at a time. The roots, however, can be stored for a long period without deteriorating If they are kept dry and free from frost. Youth's Companion. What the Sun Does. Letting the sun shine for a given time upon the blackeued cover of a bos filled with water or some other liquid, and noting the rise in temper ature, affords us a method of approxi mating the amount of heat given off by the sun. Hy such a method It Is estimated that the earth receives ev ery second from the sun enough heat to raise UUO.tXXMXH) tons of ice water to the boiling point, or to melt 4SO.0OO,- 000 tons of ice without chunge in tem perature. If this Is the amount thut the earth receives, think of the amount that must be passing off into space and other planets. This nmount has been computed to be 2J200.0OO.00O times as that which the earth receives. Scien tists have shown that the amount of heat received by us from the sun may vary as much as five per cent In less than a week. A Wonderful Farm Buy tfjl 7CA Improved 80-acre P1 I JU""ranch in the Sisters country. Water for irrigation from spring on the ranch. USE TIN TO WEIGHT SILK Manufacturer Have to. Employ Mate rial Which Would 8eem Hardly Suitable for Human Apparel, We have adopted tunny foreign Ideas of comfort or utility, but no one has sought to Introduce (lie wooden shoe from Holland, The tin stocking Is even less suggestive of luxury, and yet many of us wear them. Of course a person could not wear a sock of "elghtecn-cnrnt" tin and bo uncon selous of It, hut If the tin Is alloyed and disguised with silk lie can wear a considerable amount of It without suspecting It. In cutting round tops and bottoms nut of tin sheets lu the manufacture of tin cans there remains it certain amount of scrap. Men have sat up nights figuring the maximum number of such pfeees of various sizes that ran be cut from a sheet .of the tin, and still there Is the waste left over that cannot be worked Into sheets again. Itellef Is found In the demand of the manufacturer of silk, who needs some substance to weight his goods, A silk garment hangs and fits and holds Its shape better if weighted. Everybody knows how soft mid light nro the unweighted pongee silks. So the manufacturers of tin cans and of silks co-operate. One disposes of his tin waste, and the other converts the metal Into tin chloride and works It Into the woven silk. Virtually all the waste of tin can factories Is put to that use. Some silk stockings contain as much as 110 per cent of tin. The use is entirely legitimate, since the trade demands a silk thut Is firm and heavy for certain garments for which the purchaser desires a perfect lit. Silk waste, Ntieh as woru-otit and cast-off garments, becomes in turn a source of tin worth attention. Hag pickers give little heed to silk rem nants, hut carefully collect linen and wool. The rag-pickers' union. If there Is such a body, might well take notice of this Information. The tin chlor ide in the silk is easily converted Into tin oxide by burning the material, and from the oxide the metal can be re solved. Youth's Companion. PARK A PLACE OF WONDERS For all kinds of City Property in all additions For Residences For Real Estate Investments For Farm Land Opportunities SEE C. V. SIL VIS f OFFICE COR. WALL & OREGON STS. Yellowstone Has Many Marvels Which Will for All Time Furnish Attraction for Tourists. In writing of the Yellowstone park. John Mulr has said: "In some of the spring basins the waters though still warm, are perfectly calm, and shine blandly In a sod of overleunlng grass and flowers, as If they were thor oughly cooked at last, and set nslde to settle and cool. Others are wildly boiling over as If running to waste, thousands of tons of the precious liquids being thrown Into the air. to fall In scalding floods on the clean corul floor of the establishment, kee Ing onlookers at a, distance. Instead of holding limpid pale green or azure water, other pots and craters tire filled with scalding mini, which Is tossed up from three to four feet to thirty feet. In sticky, rank-smelling musses, with tsplng. belching, thud ding sounds, plastering the branches of neighboring trees; every llask, re tort, hot spring and geyser bus some thing speelul In it. no two being the same In temperature, color, or composition." SPAN OF LIFE LENGTHENED No Doubt That the People of Today Live Longer Than Did Their Ancestor, When rending of people who lived long years ago and especially when reading about the length of their lives, we are told that In the old days peo ple lived longer thuu tliey do now. Some of the early historical records speak of single Individuals who lived hundreds of years. Theru Is great doubt as to whether these statements are founded on fact. In thinking about tills we must first take Into considera tion that these records of long ago were recorded at a time when man had no accurate bleu of the actual passage of long periods of time such as a year. They did not have our cal endar as n basis for figuring nt all. Learned men now tell us that the act ual age of men who lived at the time these records of great ages were re corded probably lived shorter lives than we do now, and that what they recorded as n period of one year was probably a much shorter period than one year. It Is true beyond the question of a doubt that the people of today live longer on an average than people who lived ten, twenty or more years ago, observes the Scuttle Post Intelligencer. In other words, the average period of life has Increased steadily. This Is duo to the fact that we have taken greater care of our bodies; have Im proved the conditions In which we live,1 and made them more sanitary; have learned to fight and check and eradi cate diseases which only a few years ago we could not prevent people dying of when they once contracted them, and we know from the records which we keep that actually people live long er on the average today than only n few years ago. and It Is safe to say that they live longer now on the aver age than nt any time In the world's his tory. The Mangrove. The mangrove tree, specimens of which are In the Arnold Arboretum, the tree museum of Harvard univer sity, has a very Interesting method of sending Its seeds or fruits Into the world. Crowing as It usually does In shallow water, it Is necessary for the young fruits actually to begin growing before they lenve the parent plant, "he fruit, which resembles a lurge In-vi-rteu berry, sends out large leave nt Its upper end and a long root, some time 18 inches in length, from the lower end, while yet attached to the pnrenl plant. Then as If by mnglc, tl.e parent plant drops it Into the mud where the plnnt nready growing begins to dt-vrlnp Into a larger plant and soon Is firmly established. If It were not prepared Immediately to begin to grow In the mud it would probably he wash ed nway. A single mangrove Is oft times able to stnrt a small Island by It rcanlfold roots and arms. Some Nomenclature. A Bnltlmorean recently received a letter from a Pennsylvania town tell ing of the christening in that town of a baby in whom patriotism trium phantly, If vicariously yelled when the name wns announced as "Victory Un cle 8am." In this same family were two other children dowere-J with the name of "Italy" and "Liberty." A friend to whom this story was told made a counter attack on wondering cars hy telling of two tinforti-nnte chil dren In West Vlrglnln, who, antedating the war and its triumphs, were given the names from adjacent localities of "McAfee's Knob" and ".Itibel Doon," And yet even omniscient Slmkospenro wanted to know what wns In a name. Historic Geneva. Any one nt nil familiar with the great mime and associations of Gene va will constantly trace them In the streets the Hue Calvin, the Hue Necknr, the Itue Voltnh-e, the Hue Farcl, and, above nil, the Hue Jenn .Tnrques-Itotissenil, where Itnusseail's father lived ; the Grand Rue, where Rousseau himself wns born, the house oelng marked with a memorial tablet, and the I'romkennde de la Trelelci where, as he relates, hi father and mother. In their courtship days, used to walk up and down of an evening. STRICT ETIQUETTE IN CHINA Matter of Tea Drinking a Thing of Much Importance In the Flowery Republic. The etiquette observed In tea drink ing In China Is very rnrloin. If a lady asks you to drink ten with her and especially If the tea be sweetened you can count yourself as well re ceived and murh liked. If she docs not like you, the tea Is hitter, nud report has It that In case of this sort draining are often used. After one sip of such ten the unliked visitor makes a prompt exit 1 When making n call. If the servant should bring in a cup of ten there Is no need to take any particular no tice of It. Allow the servant to plai-e It where he likes near you, and con tinue your conversation ns though nothing hnd happened. If your busi ness Is pleasant and agreeable to the mistress or the master of the house, he or she will pass the beverage to you ; If not, you are expected lo leave It untouched, otherwise you are likely to have a quarrel nn hand, and a Chi nese quarrel either with a man or a woman Is unpleasant, Ancient Asbestos. There was winding sheet of amian thus In the Vatican library, soft nnd pliable In the hand, showing Indica tions of Ignition upon one corner. The cloth, however, did not suffer. This burning Is taken ns showing that some combustible fiber had been Intermin gled. Marco Iolo, In the thir teenth century, reported n cloth which the native of territory now Included In Russian Siberia claimed n having been made of salamander skin. Marco I'olo satisfied himself, so It seems, that he hnd to do with a min eral substance. In fact, he found nut something as to It manufacture. In this same general region of country asbestos Is today known to exist. We are not to regard asbestos as a single, definite mineral. Nor are we to understand Hint tjiere Is n fixed chemical constitution. Certain forms of hornblende nnd serpentine. If fibrous, .are regarded as asbestos. Fully Qualified. They were arguing about qualifica tions for successful careers, and n fa mous playwright, who was one of the party, maintained that the stage of fered the easiest -opportunities for beginning. As some doubt was thrown on this claim, he produced n letter from a man who wished fo be en gaged for hi new play, which wn about to be produced. The letter run as follows: "Reverend Sir; Wishing to go on the stage, would like to appear In your play. Have been a market gar dener for some years, hut, having gone bankrupt, have derided to take up acting, the same requiring nn cap ital. I urn no longer young, but 0 feet 2 In my stocking feet. Hnve mtntered a book on elocution, nnd am fond of Into hour," Windsor. Scotland's River System. If there bo one place north of the Tweed where, at n single glance, one may view and comprehend tho chief river system of Scotland, Stirling Is thut place. From this point one notes the mnln strenms, the nflluentH, nnd the gathering of the wnters, which make the Clyde, the Forth nnd the Tny, lie run then realize how great and Important In the political nnd economic history of Scotland has been that great central valley, which stretches from the N'orth sen to the water of the Atlantic Ocean. Wil liam Billot Grlftls, in "Bonnie Scot-laud." The farmer ami the business inttn of this com munity ure partners in the progress or the I'ailuie of their community. If they pull together, the progress and prosperity is certain to come. IF they listen to preachers of class hatred there can only be failure as n result. THE SHEVUN-HIXON COMPANY 1919 IS THE YEAR OF BUILD YOUR OWN HOME BUY NOW IN Riverside or Lytle Additions 220 Lots in Lytle Addition ' 400 Lots in Riverside Addition Average Size 50x140 Feet Water mains laid on I -2 of tracts Easy Terrps JOHN STEIDL, Agent Otxe Cofnn Wll inj Oregon Sirtcis Bud, Orro For the man and woman looking for a house You may be one among many looking for a per manent location. You know how hard it is to obtain a desirable place. I have several very de sirable houses upon which I feel certain fa vorable terms can be arranged. Come in and talk over the situation with us and it is likely we can be of some service to you. J. RYAN & CO. FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLDG.